''The new technique aims to improve on conventional 3D echocardiography which is not yet routinely used, partly because of problems with the quality of images produced and difficulties in imaging the whole heart. A team of Oxford University biomedical ...'

''The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared software to assist medical professionals in the acquisition of cardiac ultrasound, or echocardiography, images. The software, called Caption Guidance, is an accessory to compatible diagnostic ultrasound ...'

''A recent study, published by Elsevier in the April issue of Heart, Lung and Circulation, evaluating the use of the CAE VIMEDIX ultrasound simulator to teach transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, reports ease of use, realism and accelerated ...'

''When a patient needs transthoracic or transoesophageal echocardiograms there are two options – transportation to an ultrasound machine in the echo lab, or wheeling a machine to the bedside. Now there is a third option. The new Vscan from GE Healthcare is ...'

''Up until now infarct size has only been measured as part of clinical studies and not in routine clinical practice. The reason being that the reference method of gadolinium based contrast agents in MRI is expensive, takes a great deal of time to perform, ...'

''Adverse events associated with microbubble contrast agents used in echocardiography appear to be rare, but the agents might carry some risk of serious harm and fatalities, particularly in women, according to FDA reviewers. The FDA is convening an ...'

''A recent study has demonstrated that echocardiography with a perflutren-based ultrasound contrast agent yielded a 28% lower mortality rate at 48 hours in critically ill patients compared with non-contrast echocardiography. The safety of perflutren-based ...'

''ImaCor Inc., the pioneer of the world's only hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiography (hTEE™) management device, today released the Zura EVO™ ultrasound system. This next-generation imaging platform is used with ImaCor's miniaturized, disposable ...'

''For the first time, a joint committee of the European Association for Echocardiography and the American Society of Echocardiography have issued recommendations on image acquisition using three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE). 'The EAE/ASE ...'